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These ideals of Ishikawa are what relate his principles into what we know as total quality management. He stressed that total quality management needs to be considered throughout the entire production process of a products life cycle, from the beginning to the end, not just as an inspection at the end result of production and not just during production. Ishikawa also showed the importance of the seven quality tools: control chart, run chart, histogram, scatter diagram, Pareto chart, and flowchart. (Beckford,
